Not exactly a great time to be talking up Automattic…

No.

I mean, try to sell it for whatever you want to sell it for. I personally wouldn’t take it if you were giving it away.

It’s important context that it has an i3-2370M, a low-end CPU from 2012. On eBay I’m seeing an Dell laptop with an i5-4310U (a mid-range CPU from 2014) also with 16GB memory and 1TB SSD for $150. I could maybe see someone paying $100 for yours, but I doubt it.

They also have the money to lobby state governments to get rid of protections in the states where they have a large presence.

Agreed…people who are generally not in battleground states. It’s clearly something that could impact future elections, but it’s also pretty clear that it didn’t have a strong impact on this election. There is no evidence of low Democrat turnout in battleground states.

just to be clear: fuck the dems.

That said, we that protest their awful shit just didn’t have the impact that stories like this make it seem like we did which is sad and horrifying for different reasons.

The national popular vote is a vibes-check at best. In nearly every state that matters, Harris did better than Biden, and in the ONE state that she didn’t, she did worse by ~90k votes. In those states, (again, the ones that decided the election), Trump voters just turned out more than they did in 2020.

PA Biden: 3,377,674 Harris: 3,423,042

AZ Biden: 1,672,143 Harris: 1,582,860

NV Biden: 669,890 Harris: 705,197

GA Biden: 2,461,854 Harris: 2,548,017

NC Biden: 2,684,292 Harris: 2,715,380

WI Biden: 1,610,184 Harris: 1,668,229

MI Biden: 2,649,852 Harris: 2,736,533

This is, unfortunately, not borne out by the data. I wish we had this kind of impact, but no, Harris did pretty much as good as Biden in battleground states, which is very good compared to previous elections. Rural votes for Trump just came out way harder for racist scare tactics than ever before.

similarly, for me:

my desktop was a bit buggy when I was doing bleeding-edge wayland/nvidia stuff on Arch. I switched to an AMD GPU, and haven’t had issues since. I’ve since distro-hopped to Nobara, then Bazzite, then NixOS, all with no issues.

My Framework 13 laptop was good on Manjaro with no bugs and now is good on NixOS.

My 2013 Macbook Air is also bug-free on NixOS.

He talks on his podcast all the time about being on Bluesky

bc they’re all vipers. some are just more useful than others.

I looked into doing this a bit ago. For me, the current solutions just aren’t good enough. Once Plasma Bigscreen and Waydroid Android TV are ready, then I think I’ll take the plunge. For now, my Nvidia Shield 2019 is hard to beat.

Yeah, it’s right next to the wall of e-commerce sites that give you a single checkbox for “send me order information and tracking updates along with occasional promos”

This is the first I’m hearing about it. I don’t know why anyone would be excited about this.

Ooo looks nice. This might make me want to try CLI mail again. I tried neomutt a long time ago and just couldn’t get it working right, but this looks a lot easier.

"I never got into the habit of killing. I could mention the names of many that it would please me if I could read their obituaries in the paper in the morning” - Clarence Darrow

Yeah, unfortunately the display/esp32 can now only be purchased pre-flashed from specific retailers (for a significant markup) and the firmware is no longer published anywhere. The only way to update is OTA.

It’s all really shitty. Though, I’ll admit, I really didn’t have high hopes when I found out that they use discord for everything from troubleshooting to documentation to group buys.

I bought the parts to build mine a year ago and never got around to it. I’ll still build it, but it’s sad they are either ripping away all potential future support, are fracturing the community, or both

I love open source.

On a related note, open source projects that get big without a reliable leadership organizational structure risk burning down just as easily.

Recently nix, wordpress, and gaggiuino were affected by this kind of thing. Nix seems to be recovering. Wordpress doesn’t look good. Gaggiuino skipped right over source-available and went closed-source.

Linux is a success story with this structure, but I think we need to be better about building projects with stability in mind.

The choice to use “AI” was deliberate. That’s malicious enough.